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2011–2012 Events Calendar

Radcliffe Gymnasium_credit Richard Mandelkorn
Radcliffe Gymnasium; photo by Richard Mandelkorn

July

Friday, July 1, 2011 – Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Schlesinger Exhibition
Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Collective Goes Global

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Exhibition details

September

Friday, September 9, 2011
The New Majority? The Past, Present, and Future of Women in the Workplace
A Schlesinger Library Symposium Honoring the Legacy of Clara Schiffer

1–5:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Adventures in Teaching Science and Cooking”

Michael P. Brenner, 2011–2012 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

October

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Playing for the World: The 1904 Fort Shaw Indian Girls Basketball Team (2009), directed by John Twiggs and Alison Perkins

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Neurological Entanglements: The Case of SSRIs, Suicidal Ideation, and Pediatric Depressions”

Elizabeth A. Wilson, 2011–2012 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Emory University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Systems of Creation: The Emergence of Life from Nonliving Matter”

Stephen Mann, 2011–2012 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow and Wyss Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, October 13, 2011
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“‘Paying for “Freedom” with Her Health’: Rising Life Expectancy, Women’s Aging, and American Youth Culture”

Helen Veit, Michigan State University, with commentary by Brooke Blower, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

Friday, October 14, 2011
Science Symposium
“Molecules, Movement, and Motors”

Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Registration is required.
Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #RadSci.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Story of Islamic Architecture”

Nasser Rabbat, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Friday, October 21, 2011 – Monday, March 12, 2012
Schlesinger Exhibition Opening
Women on the Clock

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Exhibition details

Friday, October 21, 2011
Symposium
“Reimagining the City-University Connection: Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice”

8:45 a.m.–5:15 p.m. Reception and poster session from 5:15–6:30 p.m.
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Registration is required.
See event Web site for more information.
Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #CityUni.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Stillness and Change”

John Aylward, 2011–2012 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute, Clark University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

November

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Quest for Other Worlds: Diversity and Origins”

Ray Jayawardhana, 2011–2012 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Toronto (Canada)
Re’em Sari, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Once in Afghanistan (2008), directed by Jill Vickers and Jody Bergedick

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, November 3, 2011 – Thursday, December 22, 2011
Exhibition
Measure for Measure

Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–11 p.m., Sunday 1–11 p.m.; Main Gallery of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition details
November 4: Gallery talk by artist Susan Sironi

Friday, November 4, 2011
Gallery Talk
“Actual Size–A Portrait in Four Parts and Triple Reduction”
Susan Sironi, Artist

11 a.m., Main Gallery of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Cosponsored by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and History of the Book Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Iconography of the Talmud: The History of a Page”

David Stern, 2011–2012 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Pennsylvania
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Monday, November 14, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Experiments in Audio and Interactive Documentary”

Kara Oehler, 2011–2012 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Media and Place (MAP) Productions/metaLAB (at) Harvard
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Speak No Evil (A Novel)”

Uzodinma Iweala, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Independent Writer
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, November 17, 2011
2011–2012 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
“In Search of a 21st Century Vision of Equality”

Anita Hill, Professor, Brandeis University
4:15 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Monday, November 28, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Betrayers”

David Bezmozgis, 2011–2012 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Writer (Canada)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption”

John Plotz, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Brandeis University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

December

Thursday, December 1, 2011
2011–2012 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
"Shooting, Editing, and Reading a Documentary Film"
Frederick Wiseman, Independent Documentary Filmmaker (Zipporah Films)

4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Female Labor, Marriage Mobility, and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950”

Laurel Bossen, 2011–2012 The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, McGill University
Melissa J. Brown, 2011–2012 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Minnesota Population Center
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Paris Was a Woman (1996), directed by Greta Schiller

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, December 8, 2011
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Logic of the Early Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”

EVENT POSTPONED. New Date TBA.
Jennifer Morgan
, New York University, with commentary by Linda Heywood, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Sarmiento, Translator”

Matías Piñeiro, 2011–2012 David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Universidad del Cine (Argentina)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, December 15, 2011
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
"Book Sale 2011"

9:30 a.m.–6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

January

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Yorkshire Writers: Provincial Literary Communities in Late Medieval England”

Ralph Hanna, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

February

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“In the Company of Women: Desire, Subjectivity, and the Surrealist Imagination”

Whitney Chadwick, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, San Francisco State University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
In the Name of Love (2003), directed by Shannon O'Rourke

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Habitable Worlds”

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 2011–2012 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Emory University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, February 9, 2012
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Performing Civil Rights: Black Women Entertainers, the ‘Long’ Civil Rights Movement, and Second Wave Feminism”

Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark, with commentary by Daphne Brooks RI ’11, Princeton University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

Monday, February 13, 2012
2011–2012 Dean’s Lecture Series
"How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Early Modern Views of the Last Supper"

Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Moon of Alabama: From the Third Reich to Tranquility Base, via the Segregated American South”

Diane McWhorter, 2011–2012 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Scholar (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor”

Cristina Maria Cervone, 2011–2012 Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Scholar (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Egg to Organism: Visualizing the Concepts”

Benny Shilo, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

March

Monday, March 5, 2012
2011–2012 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Constructing the Head and Brain of Vertebrates: How the Study of Development Sheds Light on Evolution"

Nicole Le Douarin, Honorary Professor, Collège de France
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Power Geometry of Globalized Parenting”

Pei-Chia Lan, 2011–2012 Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010), directed by Deann Borshay Liem

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Death, Mobility, and the Moral Imaginary in South Africa”

Rebekah Lee, 2011–2012 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, March 22, 2012
2011–2012 Rama S. Mehta Lecture
“Approaching Midnight: Taking Midnight’s Children from Book to Film”

Deepa Mehta, Film Director and Screenwriter
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Muddy Footprints”

Susanne Freidberg, 2011–2012 Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Dartmouth College
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, March 29, 2012 – Friday, March 30, 2012
Conference
"Women Making Democracy"

Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
The conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Registration for the Thursday and Friday conference events must be completed separately.
Registration for the artistic performance on Thursday, March 29, is required by March 15. Click here to register for March 29.
Registration for the full day of panel discussions on Friday, March 30, is required by March 23. Click here to register for March 30.

April

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Near Burn and Burden”

Reginald Dwayne Betts, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of Maryland
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
3 Américas (2007), directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Tumbling Downhill: The Ripple Effects of Unemployment and Underemployment in the United States”

Amy Goldstein, 2011–2012 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Washington Post
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, April 12, 2012
2011–2012 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Black Milk: Maternal Bodies, Wet Nursing, and the Value of Black Women’s Invisible Labor in the Antebellum Slave Market”

Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Rutgers University, with commentary by Walter Johnson RI ’11, Harvard University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.

Monday, April 16, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship”

Chimamanda Adichie, Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and Radcliffe-African Studies Fellow, Independent Writer (Nigeria)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Olympic Urbanism: From Rome to Rio”

Judith Grant Long, 2011–2012 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Design
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Monday, April 23, 2012
Dean’s Lecture on the History of Women at Harvard in Honor of Harvard’s 375th Anniversary
"It’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard"
Helen Horowitz, PhD ’69, RI ’01, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History and American Studies, Emerita, Smith College

4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Creating Justice for the Poor in the New Metropolis”

Margaret Weir, 2011–2012 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, University of California at Berkeley
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

May

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Wit and Its Engineering: Poetry and Cartography in Early Modern France”

Tom Conley, 2011–2012 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
God Gave Her a Mercedes Benz (1993), directed by Katia Forbert Petersen and SFINX Film/TV

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Reading from the Novel ‘One Hundred Philistine Foreskins’”

Tova Reich, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Independent Writer (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Friday, May 25, 2012
Alumnae/i Event
"Radcliffe Day 2012"

10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Registration is required and opens in April.

June

Sunday, June 3, 2012 – Friday, June 8, 2012
A Seminar Taught by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Reading Historic Cookbooks: A Structured Approach

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Applications will be accepted through April 27, 2012. A participation fee is required.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Black Girl (1966), directed by Ousmane Sembene

6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647